Shakira charged with $7 million tax evasion

Colombian singer and pop star Shakira has been charged by Spanish prosecutors for failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her 2018 income.

Shakira is alleged to have used an offshore company based in a tax haven to avoid paying tax, Barcelona prosecutors said in a statement.

Shakira is already due to be tried in Barcelona on November 20, 2023, in a separate case that hinges on where she lived between 2012 and 2014. In that case, prosecutors allege she failed to pay 14.5 million euros ($15.4 million) in taxes.

Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of the 2012–14 period in Spain and therefore should have paid taxes in the country, even though her official residence was in the Bahamas. Spanish tax officials opened the latest case against Shakira last July.

Shakira charged with $7 million tax evasion

Colombian singer and pop star Shakira has been charged by Spanish prosecutors for failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her 2018 income.

Shakira is alleged to have used an offshore company based in a tax haven to avoid paying tax, Barcelona prosecutors said in a statement.

Shakira is already due to be tried in Barcelona on November 20, 2023, in a separate case that hinges on where she lived between 2012 and 2014. In that case, prosecutors allege she failed to pay 14.5 million euros ($15.4 million) in taxes.

Prosecutors in Barcelona have alleged the Grammy winner spent more than half of the 2012–14 period in Spain and therefore should have paid taxes in the country, even though her official residence was in the Bahamas. Spanish tax officials opened the latest case against Shakira last July.